Crime Stoppers Cash Rewards Crime Stoppers is a partnership of the public, the police, and the media, which provides the community with a proactive program for people to assist the police in solving crime, earn a cash reward for information& remain forever anonymous.
    • This is how simply it works...
      When a "Tipster" calls either the 24-hour toll-free or local telephone number, an operator will collect as much information as possible about the crime being reported. Most times, this is the one & only chance to get as much information as possible and the operator is trained to assist, while gathering important details. Each caller is treated with respect and assured total anonymity. The operator will never ask for the caller's name or any identity information.
       
    • Crime Stoppers does not have Caller ID.
      At the end of the call, the tipster is given a secret code number and asked to call back in a few weeks. This allows time for the police investigators to do their job. Later, when the caller repeats the secret code number the operator will tell the amount of the cash reward and how to get the cash reward from one of the secret locations conveniently scattered throughout the Ottawa Valley. 
       
    • Or.... When the tipster has completed the Crime Stoppers online form and presses SUBMIT, he or she will be able to see a secret code number that must be used for future inquiries about the cash reward. The form is actually submitted directly to an independent third-party, not to any police or Crime Stoppers organization. Crime Stoppers is sent the tip only after the secure servers have automatically stripped (removed) all Internet ISP and traceable pathway data. 
       
    • After an arrest and/or charges, the tipster is eligible for a cash reward of up to $2000.00. Crime Stoppers is the only organization that quickly pays a cash reward when charges are laid and does not base cash rewards upon convictions. Each month the local Board of Directors of Crime Stoppers meets to discuss the current tips and charges. Each tip is fully reviewed and the amount of the cash reward is determined based upon the seriousness of the crime and the value of the tip. While there are cash reward guidelines, the Board of Directors may award larger cash rewards based upon the tip's accuracy, severity of the crime, the number of charges laid or persons arrested and importantly, fairness to the tipster.
       
    • As stated, it is the caller's responsibility to contact Crime Stoppers after the monthly meeting of the Board of Directors to find out how much the cash reward is and how to get it, secretly and anonymously.

      We have absolutely no way to contact the tipster.
       Crime Stoppers are interested in all serious crimes, including assault, battery, homicides, missing persons, robbery, burglary, break and enter, arson, theft, damage to property, wildlife poaching, illegal hunting, cruelty to animals, illegal drugs, drug trafficing and crimes against children; internet, luring and pornography.

TIPSTERS WILL NEVER HAVE TO ATTEND COURT AS A WITNESS